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Prasenjit Mitra

  • Assistant Professor
313F Information Sciences and Technology Building


University Park, pa 16802

Education:

  1. Ph.D., Stanford University

Biography:

Research Interests
Data Mining, Database Systems, Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Semantic Web, Database Security
 
Biography
Prasenjit Mitra received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in September 2004. He received his M.S. degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Austin in December 1994. Prior to that, he obtained his B.Tech (with honors) degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in May 1993.
He worked for five years at Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, CA, as a senior member of the technical staff at the Server Technologies division developing database software. He has also worked part-time as a senior software engineer at Narus, Inc. and DBWizards.
His research interests are primarily in information extraction and interoperation especially with respect to web information systems, secure information sharing and access control, query optimization, information extraction, the semantic web, and digital libraries.
 
Selected Publications

  1. Zhao, Q., P. Mitra, B. Chen. July 2007. Temporal and Information Flow Based Event Detection from Social Text Streams. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'07). Vancouver, Canada.

  2. Liu, Y., K. Bai, P. Mitra, C. L. Giles. July 2007. TableRank: A Ranking Algorithm for Table Search and Retrieval. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'07). Vancouver, Canada.

  3. Sun, B., Q. Tan, Q., P. Mitra, C. L. Giles. May 2007. Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007). Banff, Alberta, Canada.

  4. Afrati, F., C. Li, P. Mitra. March 2004. On Containment of Conjunctive Queries with Arithmetic Comparisons. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). pp. 459-476. Crete, Greece.

  5. Afrati, F., C. Li, P. Mitra. June 2002. Answering Queries Using Views with Arithmetic Comparisons.Proceedings of the Twenty-First ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS). pp. 209-220. Madison, WI.